1st February 1991
Defender 2
Once upon a time arcade game were boring and predictable. A machine from a company called Williams changed all that with a wicked blasting game called Defender. It had wickedly tasty graphics, booming sound and superb gameplay.
Defender 2 is Jeff Minter's homage to the arcade game. The disk actually includes three games: Defender, Defender 2 and Stargate. Each game has the sort of gameplay a reviewer can usually only dream of.
What's more, they've all been brilliantly recreated. Each game is quite simply a blast. You've got to zap all the alien ships while protecting the humanoids on the planet surface, and that's it. Fun, fast and completely frantic. This one's taking up residence in my disk drive permanently.
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